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excavated material into high hills at their head. Dr. Merrill's 

 views have been recently corroborated in a paper on " The 

 deformation of portions of the Atlantic coast plain," by A. 

 Hollick,* who, in disputing the possible orogenic origin of these 



Sand and Gravel West Shore of Hempstead Harbor. 



Stratified Sands and Gravels at Port Washington. 



folds, calls attention to the fact that they are found only along 

 the line of the moraine, and that the beds are disturbed only to 

 a certain depth. The disturbance is well shown at Glen Cove, 



* Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., XIV. 



